1. What skills are expected (or most valued/needed) from a person working as a software developer in your company? – Technical experience. Understanding of a techincal area is not expected, but highly valued. But everyone needs some level of understanding about programming, databases etc. – Eagerness about developing. You should be self-propelled: finding solutions and…

If Custom Slash commands weren’t enough for you, or if you are trapped behind a firewall without the option to make public endpoints, bots are a great way to make custom integrations with Slack. Anything you can program is doable to integrate with Slack, let me show you and get you started.

If you already have a React web app, and consider porting it to a proper phone app, you should consider using React Native. However, you could also use PhoneGap/Cordova, which is done in a heartbeat: How?

Parallax is hot. But in so many implementations, it’s not. Because it’s implemented shittily. Parallax shouldn’t be done with Javascript, because then it might end up like this: so laggy it breaks my heart. It should be done with CSS. Jsfiddle

Edit: Stop what your doing. It’s hurting, I know. Go read The Easy Way of Sending Newsletter Emails. Outlook Web App is horrible. https://litmus.com/community/discussions/1354-email-content-and-table-centering Lead me to write <html> <body> <table width=”100%” border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″><tr><td align=”center”> <!– This is your container, you can shrink this if you want, but it’s not recommended to go over…

I’m new to the whole Bluetooth communication game, but in my case I’ve run into having to communicate using 8-bit usigned integer arrays (I’ve used Cordova libraries to communicate with Arduino chips). In order to do this I’ve had to convert from and to JSON structures on the Cordova side. I’ve done this with the…

I recently bought a Macbook Pro Retina (Late 2014) with 128 GB of storage. I thought that if I needed 256 GB, I could just buy a regular SSD and swap them. Turns out i can’t. Or.. I can, but it’s a special SSD that costs a third of a new Mac. And I just…

Notes from Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney 1. We clutter our code (with comments) Comments are ignored by the compiler. They are also ignored by programmers. So who’s the audience? Reading comments is like a sign of defeat, so it might be useful if your code is uncomprehensable in the first place. But then,…

This post is an my interpretation of the teachings in Robert C. Martins Clean Code III: Functions. Functions should do one thing You can tell that a function is doing more than one thing if you can extract a function from it with a meaningful name that is not merely a restatement of its implementation. Make…

OK, so here’s the thing. I use a Mac and I edit files located on a server somewhere on the Internet. I want to have the files and folders on that server mounted in Finder, so I can easily navigate and edit those files without having to up- and download files manually. Since I don’t…